Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-21
FIJI A BROKEN.

THE CHARM BROKEN.
r,eia Farrar Commits the Thlrd cul'
eide in Two Weeks.
A Tragic Ending Of . 1isspsne Ai''-e"
sands = Bullet Crashing hroug ns1
u..a-rhe Suicide Msnia VIII No"
Take = Rest.
rh. endemic Of suicide that has v'slteo
+h;s c;tv among the soiled doves during tne
mast few days had another victim addeo 10
;ts list yesterday morning. 1t is q mose -,
,~oo+;o,s disorder. There is q morbid ana
m.Ton influence on certain dispositions id
tho SIGHT of suicide-under certain circum'
s+ances. Let the suicide be young ana
fo;r Init frail sister; let her associates avisn
mon the DOOR dumb corpse those tender
attentions in the way OF rel nanoso"e
casket and spotless grave clothes tna' 'ne
GOOD and the pure bestow proiusely on
their lost ones; let the misguided girl nave
bod q. lover who was faithless, and let mat
specious sophistry be oft quoted tna' sue
was smore sinned against than SHINING,
and you have the
CONDITION Precedent
for breeding q crop OF suicides among
women of that class that all the Doaros u
health in the world could not guard against.
Maud Garrison took the mere
An unfortunate girl in her private life be.
fore she came here. Married young n
left alone by her husband, who assumes
care of her child. A mother robbed OF her
child. Possibly she wat unfit to care ior
jt-but she was in~exorably cast from It's
presence and denied it's sight. She was
weak. ~thoughtless. giddy, but not vicious.
She drifted here to be as far as possible
from painful surroundings. But you can
not get away from the misery OF you:
crime if you fv to the uttermost part OF
the earth. It will find you. Thu Nemesis
OF her sin followed her here. Amid dissl-
patton of the coarsest kind she sought TO
drown the past. It would not down. Her
utterly abandoned, misspent life and the
horelessness Of retrieving it
CRUSHED OUT ALL DESIRE
for existence. She took the fatal dose. In
no other way could she attain nepe''tne.
And has she? Well, she unlocked the great
secret and has looked upon the King OF
Terrors, and her face was calm and peace
full when poor Florence Griffin looked at
her in her coffin, surrounded by flowers and
with weeping companions seated about
the room, and all paying that reverence to
the life!ees clay that when alive had fallen
so low from it's once pure condition. Flor
ene's sole refrain after that was: What q
lovely corpse she looks!" That was all
she s6w. The world she lived in was a
--.-l re cr~ro1l;-~ lsco;ro ton IN
which she was a n~onentity. She felt that.
Knew she was
NO EARTHLY GOOD
to herself or anyone else. There var no
ambition of motherhood open to her. Ig-
norant, q hayward child. her vanity piqued
because she could not bring to her feet a
man immeasurably her superior whom she
chose to take a fancy to Maud's beauti-
full apotheosis was the summit OF human
ambition left to her. So she followed her
model faithfully and to make assurance
doubly sure took enough morphine to have
killed a dozen and did not make half as
graceful an ending. But she must be buried
"decently," and out of mistaken regard for
appearances her landlady provided for her
q lovely white casket, devoted the parlor
to the lying in state Of the poor remains
for one whole day and of course the sympa-
thy and wet handkerchiefs and ullulations
were as profuse as in the other case. Among
those who visited the house Of mourning
was the
SUICIDE OF YESTERDAY.
She had left a husband in Portland and
taken up a life of shame. Voluntarily
abandoning a pure existence, she came to
this city last summer and her life was as
that OF her class. She had personal at
fractions, a well.developed figure, youth
and an ungovernable temper. She was
infatuated with q man named Harry |
Odell whom she left in Portland and who
came to Butte recently. She had an
alteration with him a day or SO ago and
bore on her face the marks of his savage
punishment even after her death. For
this he was arrested, and the police wanted
her as a witness. With the waywardness
of her class she desired to shield him and
evaded the Marshal who had q subpoena
for her. She had been heard by her
companions to say she would
CUT OFF HER RIGHT HAND
sooner than get him in prison on her &C
count. She was moody and disDirited
Tuesday, and came in and went out of
Emma Abbey's house, where she lived, sew
eral times during the day. She left the
house last about l O'Clock Wednesday
morning. From there she went to the room
of a young man, intending to spend the
night there and leave town in the morning.
He gave up his room to her and left her
alone about 2 O'Clock. What desperate
resolve seized her. what emotions of love
and fear OF theman Odell everpowered her,
and how hopeless her future appeared can
only be judged by the d~espairina
tone of her last note. Shortly after 3
O'Clock the inmates OF the building were
awakened by two
SHOTS IN QUICK SUCCESSION
coming from the room she occupied, and
shortly after Officer Jordan burst open the
door, and there the ~lifeless corpse met
their Mortified gaze. She was seated,
dressed, in a rocker, her head hanging
sideways over the right shoulder, a
gaping wound in her temple, from which q
heavy stream of crimson fluid gusbed to
the floor. and q self-cocking revolver in
her right hand resting easily in her lap.
One shot had been discharged at the cell
ing. The other had torn it's way through
her head with fatal accuracy. On the Ia
BILE, besides other things, were an empty
flask OF whiskey, a half burnt letter and a
recently written pencil note open to inspec.
"Jos1E-You are too far from my reach,
and l cannot get you. because l am only a
sporting woman. But remember l wal as
pure as the other girl I loved you, but
my owe could not be returned. Josie, |
rave three children. l am but 10 years
old. l could not get along, and this was
only refuge I could come to. It is now
five minutes past 8 o'clock; in ten min utes
l will be cold, Heart.broken
"ELs1E.
Tell the boys goodbye. Emma, write
Portland to my husband, B. Farrar,
and tell him." l
AN EQUEST
was Immediately held. The evidence taken |
was conclusiveof the fact that no one was
ia the room with her when she killed her.
self. and the jurymen reached a conclusion
very quickly. While the inquest was being
held a number OF her associates had as.
in the hall, and as soon as the
ioor was opened they trooped in. Much
feeling was exhibited by the women who
yazed affrighted at the fate that seemed
relentlessly bent on overtaking them one
one. 1t seemed as though they felt the
OF their missuent lives SLOWLY
each one and that this third
'uicide sealed their own fate.
THE BODY